The Lucy Poems Of William Wordsworth
Martin Halpern
About this work:
These three settings are an extension of my earlier cycle for tenor voice and piano "Thanatos: Four Poems About Death." In the first setting, the poet has a strange foreboding of the death of a young woman he loves; in the second and third, that death has indeed occurred, and the poet mourns her passing. The identity of "Lucy" has never been discovered, and it is possible that she existed only in Wordsworth's imagination.
Version: Tenor and Piano
Year composed: 2000
Duration: 00:10:30
Ensemble type: Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble:Solo Voice with Keyboard
Instrumentation: 1 Piano, 1 Tenor